Set a note from a keyboard for a step in grid recording mode

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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Hello,

I have a little midi issue where I found in the manual that in the grid recording it shall be possible to hold a trig key and press a note on an external keyboard to set a note.
I can’t get this working on my setup.

I have:
Digitakt (DT) Version 1.11
Arturia Keystep (KS) clock set to midi (white switches)

Connection: KS (midi out) -> DT (midi in)

On track8 a sample is set and with the keyboard the midi channel is also 8 so I can hear the cromatic play of the sample using the KS. Now the grid recording mode is entered with pressing record, then I hold the e.g. trig1(KICK) to set the 1st step of the sequence and press a note on the KS. The note is ignored and instead there is the default note enabled on the 1st step.

On pressing FUNC and twice trig1, it appears lighting yellow. When I now hit the KS the note is not played. With pressing the tri1 the color changes back from yellow to red and the sequence is played once with the new note. When the sequence is repeated, the note jumps back to default without pressing anything. I found this very confusing, do you hava an idea?

I do not want “live recoding mode”, because I am a keyboard beginner and want to modify my wrongly played notes.

Thx for your help

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Try using the auto-channel on the DT instead of the track channel. So instead of making the KS send midi on channel 3 you set it to send midi on channel 14. Now the midi notes you play on your KS will follow your selected audio channel.

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Why 14? Set it to send MIDI on the Autochannel Channel. Go in the MIDI Config > Channels to see on which Channel is the Autochannel.

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Gosh you guys saved my day. I didn’t know in the Channels menu is something below the
track to channel selection.

I just set the AUTO CHANNEL to the same channel the KS uses, and now it works!!!

I am so happy!!! Thx a lot!

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Just make sure that the Autochannel is on its own Channel (different than your Tracks and MIDI Tracks Channels).

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The opposite is working on my side. I need to set the auto channel to 8 which is same as the midi channel 8 = TRIG8 (CYMBAL)

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ahh okay now I got it, I have set the autochannel to 14 and also the KS to 14, now I can play any track chromatical. That is even more great!!!

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I found it in the manual page 22 below 8.5 modes and in chapter 15.3.3. In my opinion it would better be named “AUTO TRACK” instead of “AUTO CHANNEL”, because the keyboard on the selected channel is routed automatically to the active track isn’t it? Maybe it would be a good setup-example for the manual in a later version.

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Default channel number for the Digitakt auto channel is 14. Perhaps I was wrong with that assumption.

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